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EDIT*** nunogomez replied as well, now you can see his answers too!

Greetings guys,

I made an interview with most of the ''famous'' players. Below, you can read about their Real Life, eRepublik begginings and why are they legends.
Most of you know this every player...if you don't, you can find out more about them on their wiki pages, or enter any channel on irc, someone should tell you.

For example: http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Emerick


Players I interviewed are: Bogdan_L, Megalexandros, smrtan, Josh Frost, -Chuck Norris-, lgabor72, Emerick, Geokos, Jazar, dSoKre, Argrob, Mr Woldy, nunogomez

Players from which I recieved no response: exohoritis, BattalGazi, Bogdan Adamutz, Durruti


Players that rejected my proposal: Colin Lantrip, FanaticZD, Atea(she told me she never speaks about her RL)


Players that agreed but didn't send me answers(I will edit article or write new one): fib, desert hamster, Romper


Questions were:

1. Name(surname not needed)/ age / location / job
2. How did you find out about eRepublik?
3. What do you think about the game?
4. Would you like to change something? If yes, what would it be?
5. What is your goal in the game?
6. What do you think about admin?
7. How much time per day are you online?
8. Do you buy gold? If yes how much money did you spend so far(not needed)?
9. What is your favourite thing on eRepublik?
10. How do you manage to play with RL obligations?


Bogdan_L
1. Bogdan/41/Canada/software programmer
2. In Feb 2009,after an advertising campaign in Cotidianul, national newspaper.
3. The game is very much unbalanced, the new rules(limit of 10gold and 1 RW) broke the balance even more. But beyond the actual status where the winners are winning too easily and the others don't stand a chance, all the changes lost 1 single thing that the erepublik admins kept for such a long time: continuity. The game doesn't have history and future anymore, it has just present: today.
4. What I would like to see is exactly what the admin decided to lose: a balanced world where the new changes won't come from thin air screwing up days/weeks/years of other old rules brought here to stay.
5. none
6. Is just focused on getting more gold today. Doesn't have any idea for tomorrow, doesn't have any regret for yesterday. Justhe is hoping each day is "today" and every player will think so.
7. I used to spend much time, but lately less and less.
9. The communities life, how they live, grow and sometimes die, the way how they interact, and of course making friends world wide.
this is all he sent*



Megalexandros
1. Bill, I work in the health sector, in the marketing field.
2. Through a Greek blog. It was referring – typically- to the Greek-Turkish dispute ingame.
3. Compared to what it was like when I started, the creators have become more flexible –especially after the v2 “blunder”, in my opinion- and seem to get better feedback from the players.
4. There are many things I would like to see different. I would like to see more choices in the parties political orientations, as well as the countries’ political systems. It would be interesting if there was a choice of a “revolution” let’s say…lol.
I think the Military Units module is right now under improvement that will make it more interesting too. So let us see what happens with these changes…
5. To enjoy it and have a good mood when online.
6. As I said above, the admins still make mistakes – you don’t make mistakes only if you do nothing: D. The difference I have noticed is that they seem to receive information more organized. And they try to respond to it through actions.
7. An hour to a couple some days.
8. Lol. I will let you guess, do you suppose I made this level w/out buying? I have spent some money indeed. But I always spend from my leisure money, not anyway else. I suggest everyone does so…
9. Obviously I enjoy the military module. I also love reading articles and spending some time on the IRC.
10. Everything needs a balance. RL ALWAYS comes first, but sometimes I do tend to get carried away….



smrtan
1. Piotr, 34 y.o., one of cities from Silesia urban agglomeration, owner of online company.
2. One of my friends (eersen) asked me to register from his reflink and "play at least until level 6" 😛
3. eRepublik was a Great Game. In the past 🙁
4. hm... too many things to describe in short interview...
5. I'm afraid all my goals are achieved.
6. Do you really want your article to be deleted by moderators? 🙂 Don't ask that 😃
7. Almost whole day - that's my job.
8. At the beginning of my erepublik life. More than 1,5 year ago. I bought two 20g packs (while 20g was the cheappest option)
9. society
10. I really don't know 🙂 Probably it's because I work whole day online. It's comfortable for playing game like eRepublik. IRC hidden in the background, game in 2nd browser and I can "idle" whole day. And react when neccesery.



Josh Frost
1. Josh/USA/Teacher
2. I found the game through another game site.
3. I think eRepublik is a fun game...mainly for the social aspect of it. Sometimes the game play is frustrating.
4. I think I would change to Raw Material to production ratios.
5. I achieved everything I want. Nothing left to do.
6. I think they have always been helpful and good to me, so I cannot complain.
7. Recently a lot. Sometimes in the past not more than an hour a day.
8. I have bought gold. I have lost track of how much I have spent to be honest. I am cutting down on buying though.
9. I like to fight and run my companies at this point. Politics doesn't appeal to me in any way....for now.
10. I never had a problem with it. If you do, then you're spending too much time on the game.



-Chuck Norris-
1. Diego Carriel Santis, 25 years old, I'm from Santiago (Chile), and i'm a student of translation and interpretation spanish-english.
2. I found out about erep in the forums of another browser game I used to play, called hattrick, there some players where handing invites (the game was invitation only), and since my country in rl was not created at that time, i created my citizen in Argentina.
3. It was pretty decent, now its too based on rl money, there's no way I can achieve what I achieved in the past 2 years without paying rl money, and i hate it.
4. The entire economic module, the current overproduction and the 10g rule killed it, there's no way of saving some money for investments or for war without buying it for rl money. And the military module needs to be fixed. Limit WP and bring back the old wall of V1.
5. To remain in the top hitters, and expand my economic holding.
6. They're blinded by their lust for money.
7. a couple of hours.
8. I only bought gold once, 1 gold via sms for the extra storage promotion 🙂
9. Economy and Warfare, wich also contains the coordinations on IRC.
10. rl obligations first, erep is just a hobby, a very adictive one, but a hobby nonetheless.



Emerick
1. My name is MC, number one baller, ladies always come when I whip it out and call her
2. Dio made a thread in /v/ in late 2007 and I requested an invite
3. It's alright. The major appeal is its alleged open-ended nature. like how we can craft our own stories easily.
4. Bring back v2. I miss eRep being an actual game.
5. World domination.
6. Loserfaggots
7. Too much
8. Never bought gold in my life, but I have had moments of darkness where I thought about it.
9. Trolling
10. Every other day, I either skimp out on something important irl or on eRep, and it all adds up to a not quite fullfilled experience.



lgabor72
1. Gábor/38/Hungary/project manager
2. I read it on Hungarian portal (Index)
3. It's very interesting and sometimes frustrating game. Sometimes boring, sometimes you get a heart attack🙂
4. Limit wellness pack (for example 10/minibattle, or 100/day are enough), New campaigns repeatedly, Add weekly missions (f.e. kill 50 enemy, you get 2 gold, fight 10 different battle -> free healing kit, work in a row 7 day -> 200 work skill point, train in a row 7 day -> 0,5 strength point)
5. Enjoy
6. They are hard workers. They do their job.
7. 5+ hours
8. Yes, much more than my wife accepts 🙂
9. Fighting (and winning)
10. I wake up early and go to bad late.



dSoKre
1. Krešimir/26/Zagreb/agent in a customer services
2. From newspapers Jutarnji list last page, date 10.12.2008.
3. Not finished yet.
4. A lot new products and much more statistics, especially at military module sector.
5. Reach a God of War in couple of years and enjoy with friends in game.
6. They are doing a big job, but sometimes it seems to me that we are going in circle with this 'improvments' and changes.
7. Couple of hours, depends RL obligations, sometimes less than 30 min, sometimes 5+ hours
8. I bought gold 2 times, when it was special offer for extra storage and I spent about 2€ 🙂 I bought 1 gold x2.
9. See answer number 8 (???? I don't get it...)
10. See answer nubmer 7.



Jazar
1. Antônio, 22, lawyer
2. In some Brazilian forum about games
3. Nowadays is just a hobby
4. I would like V1 back
5. Have fun, meet new people to chat with
6. Weird
7. Weeks depend, on weekend I can spend longtime 😛
8. Once I bought big package, i got hacked and stolen, admins did nothing so I stopped buying
9. Players
10. Well, every time I got free time or need to w8 for something I login a bit



Geokos
1. George, 35, Athens Greece, civil servant
2. A friend suggesting it to me when Greece was invited by the Turkeys 2 years ago.
3. Is a clever game, which a based on it is slow plot so a player doesn't need much time. It is very important based on socializing among the players.
4. I think does player admit they want a fair game. What I would change, although it doesn't very popular, is that I brought back the V2 military module (You know with the maps, tanks, etc)
5. At the moment I work on moderate and I am join the game which not specific goal.
6. Since admins started to listen the players the game has improved a lot. What been attention to is the balance between the business and the game. I understand it is a profitable business but they need to realize that the most players play for fun with a low budget.
7. Enough hours
8. Yes I have bought. I don't know or better I don't want to know the actual amount. 😛
9. The socializing with my mates and the moderate. I used enjoy the military part too.
10. I usually get in at noon (after work) or night (again after work) when the are no applications.



Mr Woldy
1. Sam/20/UK/Student
2. Through adverts on another website 😃
3. It's pretty good
4. Change the politics module
5. TO RULE THE WORLD.
6. They can be helpful sometimes. Other times, unhelpful.
7. 10+ hours
8. Nope
9. ChewChewShoe
10. I ignore IRC when I have work to do


Argrob
1. Robert / grandfather 🙂 / zagreb / complicated for description
2. Invited by friend from job
3. I am just player, the thinking is too dangerous
4. Some another guys are payed for that
5. just fun
6. nothing special
7.because nature of job whole day, except when I sleep
8. many times, sum is not appropriate for game 🙂
9. everything, except human malice
10. sometimes I forget to turn off the Game Mode in real life 😒



nunogomez
1. Geraldo/51/RS-Brazil/Software Analyst
2. An article published on terra.com.br
3. The game was build around a great idea. But could be built much better.
4. Limit healt-kit per day, put more strategy features.
5. To have fun and make lots of friends.
6. Greedy for money. They should try other ways than forcing people to buy gold.
7. 4-5 hours
8. Once in a while.
9. The real people and the good friends we make.
10. Whats RL?


I hope you enjoyed reading this, and I hope I will give you answer from players that didn't respond soon. And I hope you like my new newspapers design.

*I have nothing to do with grammar mistakes of interviewed players

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